ok lets all shit our pants to something new: post 2005 horror film thread

You liked Session 9 that much? I liked it a bit, but by the end I was disappointed.

I vote session 9 pretty high too

yah idk sarahel i liked it quite a bit - really well made, paced, shot iirc - great 'atmosphere'

also realized i voted for the devil's backbone

It definitely was well shot and had great atmosphere, and the pacing was good too - I think I remember feeling like the ending was a cop out or something.

ok so now that the results are rolling out, not expecting anything horror to place in that list outside of prob audition

what about 28 days later?

REC, Let the Right One In, The Descent, and Drag Me To Hell might all be in with a shout? Do we count Pan's Labyrinth?

ok either i was distracted or blind but i didnt see let the right one in or the descent on the nom lists so i didnt vote for them NERD RAGE

i could see 28 days later, but wondering if there will be votesplitting between that and 28 weeks later

28 weeks later wasn't even nominated, i don't think

no, it was, because i voted for it

i voted for 28 days later - even though 28 weeks later had Idris Elba and featured the, I'd like to think, Dead Alive-inspired rotary blade method of killing zombies

I voted for 28 Days Later, Pan's Labyrinth, Shadow of the Vampire, May, Wolf Creek, & Let the Right One In

I voted for Let the Right One In and Shadow of the Vampire - though not sure how much they are "horror" movies

god im pissed that i didnt see let the right one in on the noms list, would have voted unreservedly

: /

I voted Audition, Martyrs (will be pissed if this doesn't rank, but it prolly won't), Let the Right One In, The Host, A Tale of Two Sisters, May, Trouble Every Day

horror-ish shit in my top twenty: the host, american psycho (it counts, i think), visitor q, hostel ii, planet terror (yeah, yeah...but i think it was really dulled by its in-theater proximity to death proof and it was one of the most purely entertaining films i saw this decade).

still kicking myself as per upthread for not including audition and martyrs. wolf creek, pulse, and drag me to hell would have made a top forty if i'd bothered to do a list that long. still do not get the extreme love for let the right one in.

planet terror (yeah, yeah...but i think it was really dulled by its in-theater proximity to death proof and it was one of the most purely entertaining films i saw this decade).

otm

i voted for JUST planet terror, too, but i'm afraid my votes will just wind up going to grindhouse as a whole. :/ (and neither will probably place anyway.)

okay, can't remember who rec'd it, and it has little to do with new horror, but there is NO WAY 'The Whip and the Body' is better than 'Bay of Blood.' got the former from Netflix today, and i don't think i've ever been more bored while watching a Bava film.

ahem. continue.

I voted for: Audition, 28 Days Later, Drag Me to Hell, Martyrs & The Descent.

& Pan's Labyrinth, if that counts

ok well now that this is done, my horror votes and their points - placing ones with asterisks (kinda horror ones in italics):

Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) - 40pts*
Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney, 2002) - 39pts
Marebito (Takashi Shimizu, 2004, Japan) - 36pts
Wolf Creek - 35pts
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001, USA - 32pts*
Ring, The (Gore Verbinski, 2002, USA) - 31pts
Them aka Ils - 30pts
Hard Candy (David Slade, 2006) - 29pts
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007) - 26pts
Grindhouse (Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Edgar
Wright, and Rob Zombie, 2007) - 23pts
Severance (James Moran, 2006, UK) - 21pts
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002) - 20pts*
Slither (James Gunn, 2006, USA) - 19pts
Woods, The - 17pts
Session 9 (Brad Anderson, 2001, USA) - 16pts
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004, UK) - 14pts*
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001, Japan) - 12pts
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000) - 11pts
13 Tzameti (Géla Babluani, 2005) - 10pts
Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008, France) - 9pts
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon, 2003) - 8pts

By the time Cremaster 3 becomes anything resembling a horror movie, it's been almost two hours, so when they start cutting each other's legs off, it isn't horrific, it's a joyous relief that something interesting is actually happening.

oh man i dont even know what to say to you if thats what you think

also re: cutting legs off have you seen this movie?

I've seen four of the five (I haven't seen the opera one), and Cremaster 3 is just interminably dull, though intentionally so. I mean, it deals with a lot of Japanese ritual stuff that is traditionally slow moving and, well, dull. I liked Cremaster 2, the one about Houdini and Gary Gilmore. That one was about 45 minutes, if I remember right. The first two he made were about 30 minutes.

i admit i have never seen any and am willfully oblivious. what is the thing that he did with this erect penis shaping the pottery? i like that a lot.

i mean you caught the part in the first fifteen minutes where the corpse lady (representing gary gilmore) digs herself out of her grave right. or the flesh stripped horses. or the tooth destruction scene. perhaps the prolapsed disembowelment?

multiple xposts

that was cremaster 2 i think? the one with the bee/drone deal.

cremaster 2 was the one with the bee/drone deal - it's a Mormon/Utah thing, also the one with Dave Lombardo

All I remember is a lot of boat, fishing baskets, tea ceremony, and Bjork playing with fruit in the bath -- I could very well be forgetting things, it's just my overall impression was one of a long period of tedium.

yeah thats not a cremaster movie. you are thinking of drawing restraint 9. cremaster 3 is all about the masons and the chrysler building and lots of (admittedly slow developing) fucked up shit going on.

a charming still from C3 that might make my horror justification carry a little more weight:

http://www.entreumcigarroeoutro.kit.net/cremaster_3.jpg

oh whoops - you're right - yeah Cremaster 3 was a lot more exciting/interesting - that's the one with Richard Serra, and the Agnostic Front/Murphy's Law "battle" in the Guggenheim and the sheep kickline dancers that one was pretty good.

I think I saw Cremaster 3 not long after seeing From Hell.

xpost ok good because you were making me v v confused - was wondering if the cutting legs off comment was in re: aimee mullins ( who is an irl not having legs person)

No - I was confusing one 3 hour long Matthew Barney film for the other one.

And maybe I'm remembering wrong again, but I was taken with the fact that Richard Serra resembled Ian Holm who played a sorta similar Masonic role in From Hell.

yeah dude is not really into brevity anymore (speaking of which btw, i think C2 is 1:20 or so. and how it flies by! ok not really)

xpost: huh yeah kind of. also C5, for whoever hasnt seen it, is fucking beautiful. no really!

thats the opera one btw. also i realize that saying "oh hey see this asap" makes me kind of a dick considering this stuff never plays anywhere ever. thx walker arts for owning all 5 terrifyingly expensive laserdiscs.

as an added note, while tooling around looking for cremaster info, i discovered that one of my cremaster books is going for $750 on ebay. yay modern art!

not saying there's any intentional resemblance - C5 is the one I haven't seen, though I have seen stills and they are really lush and beautiful, it's the opera house one.

one can come by bootlegs of the Cremaster films - I got 1/2 and 4/5 in that format from Amoeba. The Walker and SFMoMA jointly own their copy of Cremaster 2 and affiliated artifacts, I believe.

zombieland had its moments, but there was something not all there about it. no spoilers here cameo makes it well worth watching tho. so great.

also basically not horror at all. my measure for this is if my gf can make it through the whole movie without being angry at me for making her watch it afterwards, it is not real horror.

got my hands on a screener of Babysitter Wanted. wow. great little fright flick. exact same jumping-off point as House of the Devil, similar slow-burn build, but then tense and intense, by turns, from midway until the end, and definitely its own beast. watch for a wide release in May.

just finished Dead Snow and wow i kind of hated it.

ok new moratorium, no humor allowed in zombie movies for the next 5 years and then we'll give it another try.

Watched Pontypool recently. Pretty good, it goes off into the deep end 2/3 of the way through, but an interesting take on a tired genre.

ok, re that newly revived Japanese House from '77 -- I didn't laugh or jump once.

so the verdict on house of the devil is generally thumbs-up? planning on watching it tonight.

It depends on whether or not you appreciate the aesthetics of early-80s B-movie horror - drive-in-era relics & such. If you are down with that, HOTD is pretty much a straight-up homage, lovingly crafted as such, & u will def love it. Subtracting the nostalgia factor, I imagine it might seem oddly bland to the objective viewer.

Either way, it is worth watching imo, if only for the note-perfect performance of Tom Noonan - he is creeeeepy as hell & needs to be in more horror flicks.